The award-winning Schaechter has received acclaim for her stained glass works that have been called "a paradoxical assemblage of medieval depictions, mediated by contemporary tales of human feeling." The 1983 Rhode Island School of Design graduate is a two-time National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship honoree and a Guggenheim Fellowship recipient. She has exhibited her work worldwide, including in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philadelphia, the Netherlands, Germany and Korea.

In a field often better known today for abstract design, her imagery relies on painstaking draftsmanship and the human figure. Schaechter balances the techniques of painting on glass that stretch back to the Middle Ages with an unmistakably contemporary style aligned with those of underground comics and political artists.

Her stained glass windows are composed of flash glass: a thin veneer of brilliant color bonded to paler layers of color underneath. Most of the color is contained within the glass itself; Schaechter reveals it by sandblasting and engraving the flash and then often layering several pieces together. She models her images in black enamel, fired on a kiln, and sometimes adds silver stain or cold paint. The windows are then assembled using the copper foil technique and installed in a light box.

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